“I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's...” — Maria Semple Quote

I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's mail and spying on their lives.

I think that everyone in Seattle, their daily existence, is enriched by all the charitable giving that is courtesy of Microsoft.

'Mad About You' fit my sensibility the most of any show that I worked on, and as a result, it was really fun. It felt like a very natural fit.

I guess that's what art is: Turning something painful into something people can relate to.

My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.

I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals.

I got mail from a prison once.

I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird.

I have gotten anti-Semitic mail pieces to my home that I have had to try to keep out of my children's eyes. I've gotten a lot. But whatever - this is what happens in the Internet age.

If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.